Julie Shayne presents at the National Women鈥檚 Studies Association annual conference
In honor of her new book, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, IAS faculty member Julie Shayne organized a session titled 鈥�50 Years of GWSS: The Story Across Borders, Ranks, and Institutions via an Open-Access Book.鈥� On the (zoom) panel, she presented her paper titled 鈥淓xpanding the Narrative: An Open Access Book Celebrating 50 Years of GWSS.鈥�
Shayne鈥檚 paper was about her new open-access book . She discussed the content of the book, editorial decisions, and feminist implications. Shayne argued that Persistence is Resistance captures much that is cutting edge and pioneering about GWSS while also telling the field鈥檚 history in real time. As a result, there are many feminist implications from the book: it can alter the way we think about promotion and tenure for GWSS scholars; it gives us new models for publishing; it reminds us of the centrality of mentoring to a feminist university; and it raised key questions about feminism in the academy.
Authors of three other essays presented their chapters as well: 鈥淕WSS Pedagogies of Empowerment in the Age of Trump,鈥� based on 鈥溾�� by Carrie Baker; 鈥溾�� by Luhui Whitebear, and 鈥淣o One is Disposable: Feminist Media Studies and Climate Crisis,鈥� based on 鈥�,鈥� by Nicole Erin Morse and Daniella Orias.